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Bill Barr was the attorney general when the Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists’ phone records and tried to obtain their email records.

Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post reporters’ phone records

It is rare for the Justice Department to use subpoenas to get records of reporters in leak investigations, and such moves must be approved by the attorney general. The phone records in question include who called whom when, and how long the call lasted, but do not include what was said in those phone calls.

Accused Capitol rioter had ‘Foxitis,’ his attorney says: He ‘started believing what was being fed to him’

In the six months leading up to the insurrection at the US Capitol, Anthony Antonio spent his days watching Fox News — a habit that actually made him ill, his attorney told a D.C. federal magistrate judge on Thursday.

Man charged in Minnesota bank hostage case

Charges were filed Friday against a man accused of holding five employees hostage during a standoff at a Minnesota bank that lasted more than eight hours.

Justice Dept. charges ex-Minneapolis police officers with violating George Floyd’s civil rights

A federal grand jury on Friday indicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and three other former officers on charges of violating George Floyd’s civil rights last year during the arrest that caused his death, a move that could offer another measure of accountability in a case that sparked nationwide protests over abusive policing.

California bar owner arrested for allegedly selling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards

Officials said Friday it is the first such foiled operation they are aware of nationwide.

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A makeshift memorial stood where George Floyd was killed in front of Cup Foods in Minneapolis in April.

Grand jury indicts four ex-officers involved in George Floyd’s death

A federal grand jury has indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest and death, accusing them of violating the Black man’s constitutional rights as he was restrained face-down on the pavement and gasping for air.

A woman pushed a stroller past a goose at South Lake park on April 30, 2020, in Overland Park, Kan.

These were the most popular baby names in the US in 2020

A lot of Liams and Olivias will be able to say they were born during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The KiNET-X sounding rocket launching from a NASA facility in Virginia on Saturday night.

East Coast residents might catch a glimpse of a NASA rocket launch Saturday — but clouds will likely block the view in Mass.

If weather permits, the launch could be visible across the eastern US from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River, NASA said in a statement.

Housing activists erect a sign in front of Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker's house in Swampscott, Mass. on Oct. 14, 2020.

Biden administration allocates $21.6 billion in rental assistance

The Biden administration announced the allocation of $21.6 billion in emergency rental assistance to help prevent evictions of people who lost jobs during the pandemic.

Medical workers administer the Jansen (Johnson and Johnson) Covid-19 vaccine to the public at a FEMA run mobile Covid-19 Vaccination clinic at Biddeford High School in Biddeford, Maine on April 26, 2021.

ICUs remain busy even as COVID-19 vaccinations surpass 50 percent in Maine

The number of COVID-19 patients in hospital intensive care units reached alarming levels as Maine raced to vaccinate residents — surpassing a threshold of 50 percent of eligible Mainers being vaccinated on Friday.

Refrigerated trucks were used as a makeshift morgue in New York on March 28, 2020.

NYC still storing COVID-19 victims in refrigerated trucks

New York City is still using refrigerated trucks to store bodies of coronavirus victims, more than a year after they were first set up as temporary morgues as deaths surged at at the height of the pandemic.

Vials of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.

Pfizer asks FDA for full approval of coronavirus vaccine

BioNTech and Pfizer have already distributed more than 170 million doses of their coronavirus vaccine around the United States under an emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration.

President Biden.

Watch live: President Biden speaks about April jobs report

President Biden is set to speak Friday morning after the release of a highly anticipated jobs report that showed a gain of 266,000 jobs in April, far fewer than expected.